U.S. Appeals Court Votes 3-0 Against Okla. Commandments Display
Government displays of the text of the Ten Commandments are not presumptively unconstitutional, affirmed a federal appeals court Monday.
“The Ten Commandments have a secular significance that government may acknowledge,” wrote Circuit Judge Jerome Holmes of the U.S. 10th Circuit of Appeals on behalf of the three-judge panel.
In the case of a Ten Commandments monument on the lawn of the Haskell County courthouse in Stigler, Okla., however, the “reasonable observer” would be aware of the religious motivations of the man who worked to get the monument erected, Holmes wrote in a 52-page opinion....